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Comment Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil... (Score 0) 154

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil Its Robotaxi on August , 2024

Based on previous experience we can expect that:
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil Its Robotaxi on August , 2025
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil Its Robotaxi on August , 2026
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil Its Robotaxi on August , 2027
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil Its Robotaxi on August , 2028
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Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil Its Robotaxi on August , 2043
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etc, etc, Ad Nauseam.

Comment Texas ? ... Really? (Score 2) 120

Bill Gates Says Texas Shows America's Clean-Energy Future

Let's hope that's without massive power outages thanks to an absence of weather proofing enabled by Texas' deregulated energy market that caused massive amounts of damage to Texan energy users who will now not be compensated. The reason being that the power companies whose 'business models' (a.k.a. incompetence and greed) caused the mess in the first place can't be held liable for it due to Texas' deregulated 'business friendly' energy market.

Comment Re:This dumbass called 1/4 of voters 'deplorable'. (Score 1) 255

Sigh, y'all love talking about your hyped up insurrection don't you? If those knuckleheads REALLY intended on actually doing something, why didn't any of them bother to bring guns? I mean it, seriously. Had they all brought guns they would of likely taken the building. Instead, it looked like a bunch of idiots wandering the halls causing some mischief.

It's not like it would of been that difficult concealing handguns and really doing something.

Since you seem to be too dull to divine it from my previous comment let me explain this to you again. I have a very low opinion of the intelligence of the January 6, 2021 rioters and I don't seriously think these people had a realistic chance to succeed at the things they chanted about doing when they entered the capitol. All I am saying is that Hillary Clinton was pretty on the money when she called these people 'a basket of deplorables'. Come to think of it, just the shit smearing part all by itself qualifies these people for the 'basket of deplorables' title, no guns required. Mind you, if any of these morons were stupid enough to bring a gun to the capitol riot, that's certainly a bonus since it will significantly lengthen the jail sentences they'll get.

Comment Re:This dumbass called 1/4 of voters 'deplorable'. (Score 4, Insightful) 255

This dumbass called 1/4 of voters 'deplorable' when in reality it was more like 1/3.

Sure and America lost its collective shit over that comment at the time. Yet today, ten years later, after these people stormed the US capitol with the intention of invalidating a presidential election, extrajudicially executing vice president of the United States Mike Pence and speaker Nanci Pelosi, after they murdered a police officer, beat up a bunch of police officers with poles carrying American flags, trashed the building and smeared their own excrement all over the inside of it, Hillary Clinton calling these people merely 'deplorable' seems like a pretty polite description.

Comment Re:Boeing needs to reinvent itself (Score 1) 119

They need to expunge the mcdonnell douglas culture, bring everything back to Seattle, and be a company making really cool flying machines again, damn the cost. Make it engineering led with a focus on safety, bean counters be damned

The huge problem with the MBA/Accountant culture is they lose sight of the prime focus, which is to make good planes in this case.

They look at themselves as the purpose of the company. The planes are now an unfortunately expensive things that are built to serve the MBA's and accountants and shareholders.

But if you make a good and safe plane, the sales and profits will tend to take care of themselves.

Blaming this on MBA/Accountant culture is a fallacy. A good businessman/woman realises what the core factors are that are essential to making a business profitable and that profit is not the only measure of success. In this case it is above all safe aircraft. Boeing, Airbus, they all stand and fall with their safety record. Anybody who forgets that is a poor MBA/Accountant/Business-person. The problem with America’s business community is that it seems to think Gordon Gekko is someone to emulate.

Comment Yay! Lets blame the pilots .... (Score 5, Interesting) 78

"The story should have ended after the first crash except the second set of pilots behaved in unexpected, unpredictable ways, flying a flyable Ethiopian Airlines jet into the ground." Boeing is guilty of designing a fallible system and placing an undue burden on pilots. The evidence strongly suggests, however, that the Ethiopian crew was never required to master the simple remedy despite the global furor occasioned by the first crash.

The point is not so much that the second crash was avoidable, the real point is that the first crash was entirely avoidable. If Boeing had connected two AoA sensors to the MCAS system so it could figure out when one of the AoA sensors broke down and issue a warning or react in some other way (Airbus uses triple redundancy) those pilots wouldn't have had to master yet another 'simple remedy' for something that greedy and incompetent executives at Boeing screwed up. On top of that the AoA Disagree message was 'unintentionally disabled' and the AoA DISAGREE display on the pilots displays that the (defective) MCAS software relied on was a 'paid optional extra' which quite a lot of airlines did not pick up on because including one was considered a no brainer. They can blame the pilots as much as they want. After all, the pilots are not here to defend themselves so they are easy targets and I suppose blaming them is good business strategy, but in the end it was still Boeing management that made the conscious choice have the MCAS built with a single point of failure by an inexperienced contractor purely out of geed. In an industry where redundancy in everything is a basic requirement, quality is king and you stand and fall with your safety reputation, all of Boeings fuckups in this sorry story are basically unforgivable.

Comment Re:Oh, I see (Score 5, Interesting) 247

From what I've heard, the green bubbles shown for non-iPhone users have a disproportionate effect in the US. There are also their strong lock-ins, like incompatible connectors and the difficulty of migrating your data to Android devices.

From what you hear, people are saying, there are those who would say, it has been suggested, ... stop pretending to be Fox News and pony up some hard data. Not that it will do you much good. You could make the same claim about any luxury brand or product having this same kind of 'effect'. That 'effect' is why people buy luxury anything. A luxury car/truck isn't really a car/truck, it's an insult that you can drive.

In Europe it's kind of the opposite - the iPhone is what people who don't know about phones and corporations get. Deeply uncool and suggesting that the owner is not tech savvy or had no choice. In China, iPhones are affordable to mid-range because there are so many used ones. People with money get a Huawei or Xiaomi.

Something happened in the US that didn't happen elsewhere for some reason. Stricter competition laws? I don't think it is a preference for home-grown tech as in Europe Samsung and Google are quite popular.

Nope, for the most part, hardly anybody in Europe gives a crap about what kind of phone you've got your nose buried in. Most Europeans will be annoyed at you for having your nose buried in a phone, any phone at all, instead of paying attention to what you are doing, ... like driving. Nobody much cares about the brand. I expect I's much the same is true in the USA and Asia.

Oh, and thanks to the EU for killing Lightning connectors off.

This is true.

Comment Re:HAHAHA (Score 1) 93

By the time Ariane or anyone else rolls out a Falcon 9 competitor, Starship —which is fully reusable— will be in operation.

By the time Ariane rolls out a Falcon 9 competitor hell will have frozen over, and heat death of the Universe will have happened three times over. Ariane is pretty much a government agency pretending to be a private company, doing a "Europe can haz space too" project - how the hell do you expect them to produce anything able to compete with Falcon 9 on cost?

As I already stated, money is on some state owned or private but state controlled corporation in China (with generous subsidies form the Chinese taxpayer) eating Space X's lunch just like BYD and a bunch of other Chinese EV manufacturers (with generous subsidies form the Chinese taxpayer) are about to eat Tesla's lunch. I know you think Elon is some kind of super genius real world Tony Stark but there is no way Space X is going to compete with Nation States in the long term, especially China.

Comment Re:HAHAHA (Score 2) 93

I think you are confusing ArianeGroup with ESA. ESA will be fine if they launch on cheaper craft. It's like with NASA, are they be worse off if they focus on science instead of rockets that companies can do cheaper? Let ESA focus on landers, probes, satellites, etc.

Nobody can compete with SpaceX. Not NASA, not Boeing, certainly not little Ariane. Ariane can sell their Ariane 6 launchers as fast as they can make them, they don't seem to have any issues but if they focused on reusable crafts 10 years ago, you really think they'd be competitive now? I doubt it. Ariane is owned by Airbus and Safran which are doing fine.

For one thing, Falcon 9 is only partially reusable, even if the Space X fan-club members like to skip over the 'partially' bit. Secondly, Ariane won't be dissolved or privatised for the same reason that military and police usually aren't privatised, even in the USA. These are capabilities governments hugely value and a self sufficiency in satellite launches is too so the EU governments will be more than happy to continue subsidising Ariane. Furthermore, Ariane and a bunch of others are working on partially reusable launch vehicles so Space X's advantage is temporary. Unless Elon retreats to his genus lab and successfully solves fully reusable single stage to orbit, Space X will be getting some competition sooner rather than later and if it isn't Ariane it will be somebody else. My money is on some state owned or private but state controlled corporation in China (with generous subsidies form the Chinese taxpayer) eating Space X's lunch just like BYD and a bunch of other Chinese EV manufacturers (with generous subsidies form the Chinese taxpayer) are about to eat Tesla's lunch.

Comment Shaping corporate perception ... (Score 1) 75

More than 40% of hiring managers said they list jobs they aren't actively trying to fill to give the impression that the company is growing.

I knew a lot of employers are lying sociopathic shit-stains, but now we have an exact figure ... 40% of them. I bet a whole bunch of these assholes are bringing in people for fake interviews and making them pay the travel costs. If somebody wants you to pay the costs of travelling to an interview, tell them (very politely) to go fuck themselves unless your costs are a small to small-ish sum and you don't mind burning some time on what seems to be an almost 50-50 chance to be a fake interview as it is a real one.

Comment Re:Well of course Uber and Lyft hate it (Score 1) 130

Without the constant influx of VC cash, these companies' business models will really only work with autonomous vehicles. They're just biding their time and trying to stay afloat, paying human drivers as little as possible while trying to gain (and hold onto) mindshare until true automated full self driving arrives - at which point they will tell the humans "so long, and thanks for all the fish".

In that case maybe these venture capitalist genius princes of the universe should pour there money into something with better profitability prospects than Uber, Lyft and the rest of that ilk until Elon Musk perfects the fully autonomous vehicle technology he promised us back in 2016.

Comment Re:Since becoming an adult (Score 4, Insightful) 62

And becoming aware of the world around me I found it equal parts disturbing in amusing that the American people don't believe they have a ruling class.

To answer the question, your rolling class uses legacy admissions. People from those legacy admissions are then picked to work for a handful of extremely powerful management consulting firms and then CEOs are picked out of those management consulting firms. This way money and power stays in the "right" hands.

What I find funny is that rich people rage against 'affirmative action' to provide opportunities for minorities and the poor but when they finally succeed in abolishing affirmative action for these groups they were surprised to find out that legacy admissions is itself a form of affirmative action for a minority i.e. their own idiot kids. If you want to call yourself a winner of the greatest meritocracy in human history, having your rich daddy pull strings and bribe your way ahead of more able and intelligent applicants does not count as 'winning the meritocracy'.

Comment That is competition ... (Score 1) 21

That is competition," Google wrote in the filing.

It's easy to outcompete everybody else when you have a global monopoly (also sometimes known as a 92% global market share) on web searches and enough money to either make anybody who looks like they may become a threat an offer they can't refuse or just squash them under foot if they are disinclined to accept your offer. There is a big difference between healthy constructive competition and what Google does.

Comment Re:So how's it going? (Score 1) 114

Anyone talking about "needing a college degree" doesn't have anything to say anyway. It's the education that is of value, not the certificate of completion. If you go to school for the degree, your priorities aren't straight.

That sounds like something somebody would say who started the process of obtaining knowledge, dropped out and now wants to get all the benefits of having finished what he started without ever actually doing so. You don't get a medal for dropping out of the marathon and never crossing the finish line. If a degree is proof of anything, at the very least it proves that you have the persistence, character and ability to start a very difficult process and finish it. For an employer that has to be just about the most important single skill any perspective employee must have regardless of the job description.

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